Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black… — Eden Ahbez Copy Share Image
“The kind of trenchant racism to which black people have persistently been subjected can never be defeated by making its victims more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“What is the black shadow? It's the running inner dialogue we have with ourselves all day long about our fears of being… — Marlene F. Watson Copy Share Image
You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor;… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
There's a secret government out here. It's been functioning since the beginning of time, and their whole job is population control. A… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
My issue is race. I feel black people nowadays have to conform to this one ideal. We all have to be the… — Kamanda Ndama Copy Share Image
I think that's something that we as black people in this country have been robbed of. I compare it to my brother's… — Eric Reid Copy Share Image
“Knowing that there was such a thing as outdoors bred in us a hunger for property, for ownership. The firm possession of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
First thing we have to do is recognize the time. We're at the end of the time of the White world to… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“You can't leave the show," King told Nichols. "We are there because you are there." Black people have been imagined in the… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
When you have the national narrative being "crack is awful and black people are using it," why go against that narrative when… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I learned that in order to have a strong and credible voice, I needed to do more research into the history of… — Logan Browning Copy Share Image
One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Things were tough. Segregation was all around - in the schools, the buses, the restaurants, the theaters. But Dr. King worked hard… — Jesse White Copy Share Image
Ali helped raise black people in this country out of mental slavery. The entire experience of being black changed for millions of… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
Black Lives Matter is our call to action. It is a tool to reimagine a world where black people are free to… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
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Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it's no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why… — Eriq La Salle Copy Share Image
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
I am shocked. It's upsetting to be described as chocolate, not just for me, but for all black women and black people.… — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Outside of the oppressive nature that the South offered to the black people, black gay people, black gay people who happened to… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Traveling in the segregated South for black people was humiliating. The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as… — Little Richard Copy Share Image
I would say I felt similar pressures that Black people feel in all fields, not just football. That we have to do… — Brian Flores Copy Share Image
Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'.… — Sean Price Copy Share Image
I never thought black people would say I wasn't black enough. It didn't turn me into a bully - it just put… — Tionne Watkins Copy Share Image
My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image